By Maya Dusenbery • 11 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Check out just how far North Dakotans would have to travel for an abortion if their only clinic closes.

Some great photos from marriage equality rallies this week.

Ann Friedman talks to Chris Hayes on diversity quotas.

Arizona passed a bill legalizing anti-trans discrimination. (Sidenote: The Washington Post still doesn’t know how to cover trans issues.)

The Human Rights Campaign needs to get their shit together. #doingitwrong

Check out just how far North Dakotans would have to travel for an abortion if their only clinic closes.

Some great photos from marriage equality rallies this week.

Ann Friedman talks to Chris Hayes on diversity ...
By Sesali B. • 11 years ago

Let’s get ratchet! Check your privilege at the door

A few days ago I had the, ahem, pleasure? of seeing the video of Miley Cyrus twerking. I was a little put off by it but couldn’t immediately identify why. There was the obvious discomfort at the fact that she wasn’t really good at twerking in the first place, but there was something else that I just couldn’t get jiggy with. Then I saw her post this picture and it clicked…

Via @mileycyrus on Twitter

Her skin and class privilege overfloweth in this poorly executed commodification of  twerking and subsequently “ratchet culture.” In an interview following the twerk video Miley said:

“You can’t really explain [twerking]… It’s something that comes naturally. It’s a lot of booty action… I haven’t really ...

A few days ago I had the, ahem, pleasure? of seeing the video of Miley Cyrus twerking. I was a little put off by it but couldn’t immediately identify why. There was the obvious discomfort ...
By zerlina • 11 years ago

Republican Congressman attacks Sasha and Malia Obama

First it was the NRA, and now it’s Republican Congressman Steve King’s (R-IA) turn to attack the Obama girls.  It all started when Breitbart.com bucked traditional protocol of never revealing the location of the First Daughters who spent their spring break in the Bahamas, for obvious security reasons.

I thought I made myself clear before when I said that Sasha and Malia Obama should be off limits.  Where are the responsible members of the GOP?  When something like this happens it shouldn’t only be liberals and feminist bloggers calling it out.  Republicans need to check their own folks, who don’t seem to have much sense not to attack two young women who are just enjoying their lives ...

First it was the NRA, and now it’s Republican Congressman Steve King’s (R-IA) turn to attack the Obama girls.  It all started when Breitbart.com bucked traditional protocol of never revealing the location of ...
By Sesali B. • 11 years ago

Quick Hit: Much needed response to Rick Ross’s rape lyric

Rick Ross recently came under fire for releasing a track that include him drugging a woman with molly and raping a her.

Jamilah Lemieux at EBONY.com responded with this much needed piece about rape culture, silence, and accountability. With the exception of the fat shaming shade she’s throwing at Ross, this article is dead on and a great start to a broader dialogue about rape culture within pop culture spaces like those in hip hop.

“…yes, even the girl who brought the molly and the Magnums to the party can be a victim if she was not able to decide when and how they were used. THIS IS RAPE CULTURE…”

Rick Ross recently came under fire for releasing a track that include him drugging a woman with molly and raping a her.

Jamilah Lemieux at EBONY.com responded with this much needed piece ...
By Samhita • 11 years ago

Lesson #2: Develop systems that elevate the voices of others, and then get out of their way

Editor’s note: To close out Women’s history month we are running this series of guest posts from Emily May and Samuel Carter co-founders of Hollaback as they reflect on taking an idea and moving it to action, the best practices they have learned along the way and documenting for us that feminist history is happening right now. 

The first step in establishing Hollaback! was figuring this leadership bit out.  While we knew it was important, we were deeply uncomfortable with it.  Help came with a book called No Excuses by Gloria Feldt, former president of Planned Parenthood.  Feldt argued that people with out traditional access to power (women, people of color, and others) have an uneasy relationship with power because it’s traditionally wielded over them. ...

Editor’s note: To close out Women’s history month we are running this series of guest posts from Emily May and Samuel Carter co-founders of Hollaback as they reflect on taking an idea and moving it to action, the best practices ...
By Katie Halper • 11 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Amazing and moving photos of the amazing and moving lesbian relationship behind today’s DOMA Supreme Court Case.

Boston College is threatening to take disciplinary action against students who distribute condoms.

“How Getting Rid Of The Defense Of Marriage Act Will Boost The Economy”

Activists in New York City staged a flash mob inside a pharmacy on Tuesday to demand universal access to the morning-after pill.

NBC newscaster Jenna Wolfe comes out and announces she and her partner Stephanie Gosk are having a baby.

It looks like DOMA may be struck down. Fingers crossed.

A Singaporean government-funded campaign is trying to use fairy tales to urge women to have children.

Exploring the political ambition gender-gap.

Some great images floating around ...

Amazing and moving photos of the amazing and moving lesbian relationship behind today’s DOMA Supreme Court Case.

Boston College is threatening to take disciplinary action against students who distribute condoms.

“How Getting Rid Of The ...
By Katie Halper • 11 years ago

Governor of North Dakota signs “heartbeat” bill banning abortion after 6 weeks

Governor Jack Dalrymple of North Dakota, a Republican, (duh!) signed three bills into law that would ban almost all abortions. Here are the three bills, all of which were passed by the Republican-controlled (duh!) legislature:

1. A requirement that doctors who perform abortions get admitting privileges at a local hospital. This could have the effect of closing the Red River Women’s Clinic in Fargo, the state’s only abortion provider.

2. An unprecedented ban against abortion in the case of genetic defects.

3. A ban on abortion once a fetal heartbeat is “detectable,” which can be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy when a transvaginal ultrasound is used.

The last bill, is unlikely to stand because it violate Roe v. ...

Governor Jack Dalrymple of North Dakota, a Republican, (duh!) signed three bills into law that would ban almost all abortions. Here are the three bills, all of which were passed by the Republican-controlled (duh!) legislature:

1. ...
By Katie Halper • 11 years ago

The International Violence Against Women Act: coming soon to a Congress near you

Congress finally passed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in February, despite massive opposition from House Republicans; and President Obama signed it into law in March. But the International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA) has yet to be passed. It is expected to be re-introduced in Congress in the next couple of weeks. But will it pass? And what does it do? To find out I called into a phone conference with three women working to raise awareness about I-VAWA: Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida), member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, who is helping spearhead passage of the bill, Ruth Messinger, President of the American Jewish World Service, and Rupsa Mallik, of CREA, a ...

Congress finally passed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in February, despite massive opposition from House Republicans; and President Obama signed it into law in March. But the International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA) has ...

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